diff --git a/orte/mca/errmgr/base/help-errmgr-base.txt b/orte/mca/errmgr/base/help-errmgr-base.txt
index c7e3051bb95..4aec50c04d4 100644
--- a/orte/mca/errmgr/base/help-errmgr-base.txt
+++ b/orte/mca/errmgr/base/help-errmgr-base.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Regents of the University of California.
 #                         All rights reserved.
 # Copyright (c) 2014      Intel, Inc. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2017      IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 # $COPYRIGHT$
 #
 # Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -61,9 +62,10 @@ route found between them. Please check network connectivity
 (including firewalls and network routing requirements).
 #
 [node-died]
-ORTE has lost communication with its daemon located on node:
+ORTE has lost communication with a remote daemon.
 
-  hostname:  %s
+  HNP daemon   : %s on node %s
+  Remote daemon: %s on node %s
 
 This is usually due to either a failure of the TCP network
 connection to the node, or possibly an internal failure of
diff --git a/orte/mca/errmgr/default_hnp/errmgr_default_hnp.c b/orte/mca/errmgr/default_hnp/errmgr_default_hnp.c
index a29d80e9b0a..fcdbe3acc30 100644
--- a/orte/mca/errmgr/default_hnp/errmgr_default_hnp.c
+++ b/orte/mca/errmgr/default_hnp/errmgr_default_hnp.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Los Alamos National Security, LLC.
  *                         All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2014      Intel, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017      IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
  * $COPYRIGHT$
  *
  * Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -369,7 +370,11 @@ static void proc_errors(int fd, short args, void *cbdata)
         /* record the first one to fail */
         if (!ORTE_FLAG_TEST(jdata, ORTE_JOB_FLAG_ABORTED)) {
             /* output an error message so the user knows what happened */
-            orte_show_help("help-errmgr-base.txt", "node-died", true, pptr->node->name);
+            orte_show_help("help-errmgr-base.txt", "node-died", true,
+                           ORTE_NAME_PRINT(ORTE_PROC_MY_NAME),
+                           orte_process_info.nodename,
+                           ORTE_NAME_PRINT(proc),
+                           pptr->node->name);
             /* mark the daemon job as failed */
             jdata->state = ORTE_JOB_STATE_COMM_FAILED;
             /* point to the lowest rank to cause the problem */
diff --git a/orte/mca/oob/tcp/oob_tcp_component.c b/orte/mca/oob/tcp/oob_tcp_component.c
index 45580a61b90..85cad6c83d6 100644
--- a/orte/mca/oob/tcp/oob_tcp_component.c
+++ b/orte/mca/oob/tcp/oob_tcp_component.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2011      Oak Ridge National Labs.  All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Intel, Inc.  All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2014      NVIDIA Corporation.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017      IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
  * $COPYRIGHT$
  *
  * Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -400,8 +401,8 @@ static int tcp_component_register(void)
                                           &mca_oob_tcp_component.disable_ipv6_family);
 #endif // OPAL_ENABLE_IPV6
 
-    // Default to keepalives every 60 seconds
-    mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_time = 60;
+    // Wait for this amount of time before sending the first keepalive probe
+    mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_time = 300;
     (void)mca_base_component_var_register(component, "keepalive_time",
                                           "Idle time in seconds before starting to send keepalives (keepalive_time <= 0 disables keepalive functionality)",
                                           MCA_BASE_VAR_TYPE_INT, NULL, 0, 0,
@@ -409,8 +410,8 @@ static int tcp_component_register(void)
                                           MCA_BASE_VAR_SCOPE_READONLY,
                                           &mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_time);
 
-    // Default to keepalive retry interval time of 5 seconds
-    mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_intvl = 5;
+    // Resend keepalive probe every INT seconds
+    mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_intvl = 20;
     (void)mca_base_component_var_register(component, "keepalive_intvl",
                                           "Time between successive keepalive pings when peer has not responded, in seconds (ignored if keepalive_time <= 0)",
                                           MCA_BASE_VAR_TYPE_INT, NULL, 0, 0,
@@ -418,9 +419,8 @@ static int tcp_component_register(void)
                                           MCA_BASE_VAR_SCOPE_READONLY,
                                           &mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_intvl);
 
-    // Default to retrying a keepalive 3 times before declaring the
-    // peer kaput
-    mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_probes = 3;
+    // After sending PR probes every INT seconds consider the connection dead
+    mca_oob_tcp_component.keepalive_probes = 9;
     (void)mca_base_component_var_register(component, "keepalive_probes",
                                           "Number of keepalives that can be missed before declaring error (ignored if keepalive_time <= 0)",
                                           MCA_BASE_VAR_TYPE_INT, NULL, 0, 0,